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N:o. 224,184.. S Pa ten te'd F b. 3,1880.

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WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADAM c. HENDRICKS, oF DUFFiE D sT TIo ,AssIeNoR TO HIMSELF AND HENRY ST. JoHN SHEPHERD, oF SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA.

FERTlLlZER' ATTACHMENT FOR YSEED-DRILLS.

SPECIFICATION forming-part of Letters Patent No. 224,184, dated February 3, 1880.

7 Application filed November 12, 1879.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, ADAM U. HENDRICKS, of Duflield Station, in the county of J efi'erson and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and 1m proved Fertilizing Attachment for Seed-Drills; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same. My invention is an improvement in the class 10 of force-feed fertilizer-distributers, and while it is adapted to operate independently, it will in general be made an attachment of a seeddrill.

My improvement pertains .to a rotating 5 flanged wheel for discharging the fertilizer, and auadjustable gate co-operatiu'g therewith, for regulating the quantity'of fertilizer discharged. In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l is a plan View, and Fig.2 a central longitudinal section, of a portion of the hopper of afertilizer-distributer. Fig. 3 is a planview of the same inverted; and Fig. 4 is a cross-section on line 50000.Fig.1. .i

' The hopper A, in which the fertilizer is deposited for being distributed, is shown detached from a seed-drill, as well as from a truckor transporting-carriage.

In practice,mechanism will also be provided for transmitting rotary motion from one of the wheels of such truck tothe shaft B, which ex tends through the lengthwise center of the hopper A and carries a series .of feed-wheels, G, and agitating and feeding arms D. p

The bottom of the hopperAis slotted trans versely at regular intervals to receive theperiphery of the feed-wheel U. Said periphery is of such breadth relative to the thickness of I 4 the body or web of the .wheel as to form an annular flange, b, on each side. The wheel is so placed that its periphery coincides, or nearly so, with the bottom of the hopper A. The arms or paddles D are radial to the shaft B, but set with their transverse diameter diagonal thereto, so that when the shaft is put in rota-' tion they will move the fertilizer toward the feed-wheel 0. As the wheel D revolves that portion of. the fertilizer resting on the flanges b will move with them until it falls olf bygravityor-is removed by a scraper or other analogous device. In this instance I provide abutments E on each side of the wheel D,

When the gates F are closed, as shown in 6 full'lines, Fig. 4, they entirely cut off the escape of fertilizer; but when raised, as shown in Fig. 2, they allow a portionof the fertilizer resting outhe flanges b to pass under them and be scraped off by the abutments E. so that it is discharged into the drill-tubes (not shown) and deposited in the soil.

The means I employ for raising or lowering the gates F consist of the shaft G, having radial lever-arms f g, one of which, f, connects with the lower portion of the gates, and the other, g, is provided with a clamp for securing it to an arc-bar, h, Fig. l, for holding the gates F open.

What I claim is- 1. In afertilizer-distributer, the combination, .with the feed-wheel having lateral peripheral flanges and the fixed atg tments or scrapers, of the vertically-movable gates arr-afig'ed to form the front of the latter and embrace said 8 5- flanges, and also work through the bottom of the hopper, as shown and described.

2. In a fertilizer-distributer, the combination of the lever-shaft having arm, f, the vertically-slidin g gates F, the flanged feed-wheel, o andthe hopper"having a slotted bottom, as shown and described.

* ADAM G.. HENDRIGKS.

. Witnesses:

. G. L. BARNHART,

J. T. HAGLEY. 

